Absolutely, I appreciate definitions of heaviness that move away from sonic qualities, and into more abstract considerations. The now dead
'Damn that Song is Heavy' feature on Party Smasher Inc. pushed against
1 simplistic aesthetic ideas of what the word meant as routinely. At least as routinely as such a short lived feature could be said to do anything routinely. One of the writers that wrote for that feature a couple times, Max Frank, has written his own contrarian takes on what heaviness
as an aesthetic within guitar music means, including
this one.
1. I don't think being a counter-narrative was the point, but just an inevitable result of opening up about other modes of expression.